This is bad. I upgraded to Mountain Lion and by large I am very happy with it. No problems with Photoshop CS5 (can't afford to upgrade just yet) and Illustrator CS4, all working as expected. BUT... Bridge has completely refused to work and I am panicing as I have to use this virtually on a daily basis.

It will open, but the moment you try to use it, it just crashes. All updates as far as I know are installed and I am desperate. Currently have work sitting and waiting to be done and I am becalmed. Any and all advice urgently needed.

Are the applications and OS fully updated and have you performed the usual trouble-shooting routines (trashing prefs by keeping command-alt-shift/ctrl-alt-shift pressed while starting Photoshop after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved and making a note of the Preferences you’ve changed, 3rd party plug-ins deactivation, system maintenance, cleaning caches, font validation, etc.)?

Wish I could help, but add me to the getting longer list of people for whom CS5 Bridge is an unusable program with the upgrade to Mountain Lion. There's a several other thread floating around about this in forums here and elsewhere. Hope the get a fix soon.

Application and OS are all fully updated. I got exhusted reading all the other things I should do. Not that I am lazy by a long shot, but I was hoping that I would find a solution that would not require especially deactivating 3rd party plug-ins, as with Photoshop I have quite a few and which all worked beautifully with Snow Leopard. They are also currently working with ML. Bridge seems to be the only problem. I recently did cache cleaning and font validation in an attempt to fix another problem non Adobe related, so the only thing I have not done is to the trash my prefs file and deactivate my plug-ins and which I am truthfully loathe to do.

Bridge has always been a source of grief to me though, and there is many a time that it will completely freeze if I am working on really large files (think printing 16'x12' at hi-res) and I have to quit Photoshop, reopen and sometimes actually reboot my pute before it will work again.

Will try the prefs solution first and see what happens before the 3rd party deactivation, which to me would be an absolute last resort.

Hi ftemoto - well let's hope that we all find a solution very soon as sometimes I just feel to toss in the towel and make cookies or something instead for a living. Not really - that would make me a quitter.

Wish I could help, but add me to the getting longer list of people for whom CS5 Bridge is an unusable program with the upgrade to Mountain Lion. There's a several other thread floating around about this in forums here and elsewhere. Hope the get a fix soon.

You are correct that there are quite a few users that have problems with Bridge and Mountain Lion OS.

I hope you two are directing you complaints to Apple to fix the bugs in the OS. ML is the latest trend to make the OS work well on a phone.

So far I have just chosen the "report" option when it crashes, but since I have done that at least eight times, and who knows if those reports actually ever get to Apple or just disappear off into the ether somewhere, then they should be bombarded with them by now. Checked on my plug-ins, chache and validations. Still nothing doing. Only thing left to try is to reset my Photoshop preferences and based on what I have read here and there, that should not really be necessary to fix this problem? Also disabled Open GL just to see what would happen. Still nothing.

PS - I have often wondered though, re the chicken/egg scenario, is Apple supposed to make sure that Photoshop and its kin are compatible with its OS or is it the developers such as Adobe upon whom the responsibility falls to make sure that their programmes and applications are compatible with the various operating systems? I would seem to me that it was Adobe who should be doing this. Is my thinking incorrect?

I have read many an article and heard many a Photoshop guru say that there needs to be more of a hand in glove co-operative measure in place re these upgrades, as apparently Apple don't always like the developers to know (in their usual cloak and dagger way) what they are coming up with, and yet without the information the developers are hard pressed to provide updates to their own products in a timely manner.

That was actually the first thing that I did, being the panacea for virtually all computer ills, but I will do it again. Usually I just "restart" and I have been told that actually shutting down is more complete a reboot. Will of course post if it worked for me or not. Here goes...

PS - I have often wondered though, re the chicken/egg scenario, is Apple supposed to make sure that Photoshop and its kin are compatible with its OS or is it the developers such as Adobe upon whom the responsibility falls to make sure that their programmes and applications are compatible with the various operating systems? I would seem to me that it was Adobe who should be doing this. Is my thinking incorrect?

I have read many an article and heard many a Photoshop guru say that there needs to be more of a hand in glove co-operative measure in place re these upgrades, as apparently Apple don't always like the developers to know (in their usual cloak and dagger way) what they are coming up with, and yet without the information the developers are hard pressed to provide updates to their own products in a timely manner.

This is kind of a chicken/egg problem. Have seen many (exaperated) comments about both Apple and MS that they have been notified of specific bugs with their OS, "but they have not taken any initative to correct them". Not a computer expert, but it appears that some of the bugs are beyond correction in Adobe as it is how the new OS processes the info that has changed. Adobe codes it to work with existing and proposed OS, but that effort like you mention only goes so far.

Good luck to all on this, and I would definately do more than just send in a computerized "error" report. I would be contacting Apple help and visiting the Apple user forum so to see how widespsred the problem is. I have hears that Chris Cox says that the ones they get from MS are practically useless as they do not give enough info to pin the problem down.

Spent my life always trying not to offend people (unless riled) and which is silly I know especially in a situ like this one. So I will paint my face blue (Braveheart) take a deep breath and see if I can get any kind of a response from Apple.

I did read as many reviews on it as I could find, and as will always be the case there will always be those whose opinions of anything are not exactly stellar, but the vast majority of reviews, literally 99% of those that I read, raved about it. My Mac (Once a Mac you'll never go back:)) is working like a Derby winner once more.

To be honest, I know that applications such as Gatekeeper are not always accurate. For example, I work from home for one of the largest health care systems in Florida, and every time I enter the portal I get all sorts of messages asking me if I am sure that this site is safe and that it does not have a certificate, to think twice etc. Were it any other site, I would run screaming in the other direction, but I know that the site is ridiculously safe. Has to be to keep in compliance with HIPAA and all other federal regulations for the healthcare industry.

Sometimes, one just has to take a chance and take a leap of faith and in this case I am very glad that I did.

LOL - but I was actually directing the comment to those who are still using a PC - like MY sister, hint... hint.. who freak out at the thought of having to learn a new operating system and are missing out on so much. The fact that I will never go back is a given.

TTFN and how about fixing my missing font (typeface) list in Mail that I have been whining about on every forum that I can find for over six months but so far not a nibble.

Just to chime in and fuel the debate in ways I probably shouldn't... I'm a career software engineer and I prefer PC over Mac.

My chief engineer, Bill, with whom I collaborate a lot, prefers Mac. Our systems (powerful PC workstaion, powerful Mac Pro) happen to be about equally capable, in the ways that matter. They are also, generally speaking, equally stable. At some times, the PC is easier to solve problems with, and at other times the Mac offers functionality the PC does not. There are advantages and disadvantages to both. We have chosen Windows as our development environment, which he runs on his Mac via virtualization (VMware Fusion).

Notably Bill has avoided upgrading to Lion so far, and won't even consider moving up to Mountain Lion yet. I have the latest Windows 7 updates, the latest display and other drivers, and latest updates to virtually all the software I use.

At the moment, though it is advertised that Apple adds value by vetting all drivers and other software that goes into its system updates, we are seeing (here on the forum) that more people appear to be having problems with Photoshop CS6 on the Mac. Unfortunately, Apple leaves Mac users without the ability to seek their own solutions (e.g., downloading updated display drivers). I suspect this happens whenever something major and new comes out (e.g., a major Photoshop release), then things settle down as the time needed to do the multi-level problem reporting, updates, and re-vetting passes, then OS updates happen.

All I can say is this: Photoshop CS6 works quite well for me here on this PC workstation.

To put it in a hopefully not too trite way, there will always be the Pepsi vs Coke, Starbucks vs Dunkin followers, and I do know exactly what you mean. The IT folk when I worked on campus did not like having to deal with Macs at all, and sadly for them, while the rest of the system used PC's, the Media department were all Macs.

I think that the majority of creatives that you speak to will tell you that they use a Mac. My upgrading was somewhat unintentional you might say (too long a story) as I too prefer to wait a while before going that route. I must say though, that I love the integration between my iMac, iPad and iPhone with ML. Again buuut... I do appreciate that those who do not deal with graphics to any large extent would be happier with a PC.

Oh... with the exception of an industry standard in my area called Vivien, which is only made for the PC. Soooo sad, and I don't want to run Windows on my Mac even though I could. To stupid to figure that all out.

Yup! Although she is hopeless - pretty close to the person (and I kid you not) who during my first computer class many many years ago when told by the instructor to click on a certain item, literally put her mouse vertically on the monitor and clicked away. I thought that kind of thing only happened in the movies and they almost had to scrape me off the wall in the back because I was trying so hard not to be seen grinning that I put up a pretty good imitation of a coat of paint and just blended into the wall.

Love it, love it. This is the best forum. Everyone appears to have a great sense of humour. No anonymous nastiness like you see on so many other forums, just great suggestions and many many smiles. My favourite thing to do other than get final Jeopardy when none of the contestants did? ... laugh! So bring it on guys and gals!

Hate to admit it, but my first time working in an office with computers, my boss had a key marked "panic." I spent days going from store to store looking for a similar keyboard. OK - so I don't belong to Mensa.

According to figures provided by Microsoft and by Adobe, as well as mentioned by Jeff Schewe, the Photoshop market is roughly 50-50 Macintosh and Windows.

Adobe blogger (and former Photoshop Principal Program Manager) John Nack wrote in his blog that the "Creative Suite sales are about equally divided between Mac and Windows, with sales occasionally tipping about 60-40 in favor of the Mac."

What is much larger is the installed base of Windows boxes compared to the Mac installed base. A big difference is also that the vast majority of Windows machines are "procured" by government entities and large corporations, while Macs tend to be bought by the individual end user.

Incidentally, the Mac is as much of a PC as any Windows machine, for PC stands simply for Personal Computer.